SW: Mobile Wars - HTC Droid DNA - 5" 1920x1080 display - Snapdragon S4 Pro

Nobody has meantioned the best thing about Android:

You actually get to pick a phone.

kraken2109

My Android phone was £100 and is far better value than an iphone. The only difference is iphone can game betterkraken2109

And, since this is a Gaming forum...

I like the Iphone better because the quality of the hardware and operating system are always the same. Android phones have too many variables to worry about, and you may be stuck with a piece of crap you paid hundreds of dollars for. I don't have to worry about that with Iphone. I also don't have to put a custom firmware on it so the battery lasts longer than a few hours.

Andriod. Apple Bro's can you expand your memory nope, custom rums nope. Pretty much apps that do everything you need yep

James161324

Phones sucks for gaming emulators are too unstable and no buttons

Zurrur

Galaxy S 111 is amazing /smokebomb

I also don't have to put a custom firmware on it so the battery lasts longer than a few hours.

Pug-Nasty

[QUOTE="kraken2109"]

My Android phone was £100 and is far better value than an iphone. The only difference is iphone can game bettersantoron

And, since this is a Gaming forum...

At the time of this post it was 110 to 37 in favor of an ad-revenue driven search engine over a personal electronics company...

These are crazy times we are living in, my friends...musicalmac

[QUOTE="Pug-Nasty"]

I also don't have to put a custom firmware on it so the battery lasts longer than a few hours.

NVIDIATI

It depends on the device. My HTC hero got a pretty good battery life, while my wife's Samsung Galaxy S did not. That is one of my main problems with Android, the manufacturers add their own stuff into the OS which affect its performance and reliability. Custom FW is a solution, but it is one that may brick the device, and that is unacceptable to me.

My wife is looking forward to the iPhone 5 after her Galaxy. She's also tired of not being able to participate in group texts without jumping through her ass.

It depends on the device. My HTC hero got a pretty good battery life, while my wife's Samsung Galaxy S did not. That is one of my main problems with Android, the manufacturers add their own stuff into the OS which affect its performance and reliability. Custom FW is a solution, but it is one that may brick the device, and that is unacceptable to me.

My wife is looking forward to the iPhone 5 after her Galaxy. She's also tired of not being able to participate in group texts without jumping through her ass.

Pug-Nasty

And secondly the iphone 4S doesnt have a great battery life either, the more complex phones and OS got the worse the battery life.

[QUOTE="Pug-Nasty"]

It depends on the device. My HTC hero got a pretty good battery life, while my wife's Samsung Galaxy S did not. That is one of my main problems with Android, the manufacturers add their own stuff into the OS which affect its performance and reliability. Custom FW is a solution, but it is one that may brick the device, and that is unacceptable to me.

My wife is looking forward to the iPhone 5 after her Galaxy. She's also tired of not being able to participate in group texts without jumping through her ass.

Gambler_3

And secondly the iphone 4S doesnt have a great battery life either, the more complex phones and OS got the worse the battery life.

I'm pretty sure the Nexus is the same thing as the Galaxy S, just different names for different carriers, a practice which Samsung is abandoning with the SIII as far as I know.

I would expect the 4S to get worse battery life than the 4, since it's mostly the same phone with a better processor, so the battery would naturally last less than the 4 (the one I have). That being said, it still doesn't get only 3-4 hours of battery life while not being used, as my Wife's Galaxy S did.

I imagine the Iphone 5 will have a larger battery to match its larger size, so that will be good.

I'm pretty sure the Nexus is the same thing as the Galaxy S, just different names for different carriers, a practice which Samsung is abandoning with the SIII as far as I know.

Pug-Nasty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Nexus

That being said, it still doesn't get only 3-4 hours of battery life while not being used, as my Wife's Galaxy S did.Pug-Nasty

Eureka! If only I, or Sprint's tech support, or their repair center would have thought of that.

Oh yeah, they did think of it, did it, and it didn't help. They replaced the phone four times before she got even a tolerable battery life out of the damn thing.

The freedom to root the phone is available for both OSes, but the difference is the only people I ever see happy with their Android phone have rooted the thing.

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[QUOTE="Pug-Nasty"]

I also don't have to put a custom firmware on it so the battery lasts longer than a few hours.

Pug-Nasty

It depends on the device. My HTC hero got a pretty good battery life, while my wife's Samsung Galaxy S did not. That is one of my main problems with Android, the manufacturers add their own stuff into the OS which affect its performance and reliability. Custom FW is a solution, but it is one that may brick the device, and that is unacceptable to me.

My wife is looking forward to the iPhone 5 after her Galaxy. She's also tired of not being able to participate in group texts without jumping through her ass.

I have a Titan (wp7) and love it, but I'd still choose Android over it. Just got this for something different.

At the time of this post it was 110 to 37 in favor of an ad-revenue driven search engine over a personal electronics company...

These are crazy times we are living in, my friends...musicalmac

Now this is System Wars material :P

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]At the time of this post it was 110 to 37 in favor of an ad-revenue driven search engine over a personal electronics company...

These are crazy times we are living in, my friends...NVIDIATI

Now this is System Wars material :P

iOS is better... People with tech savy tend to lean towards Android because it doesn't have the greater limitations of the iOS's closed system. For people who'd be willing to walk into system wars and even vote on it let alone comment, it will give Android the lead every time.

Simple as that.

iOS is better... People with tech savy tend to lean towards Android because it doesn't have the greater limitations of the iOS's closed system. For people who'd be willing to walk into system wars and even vote on it let alone comment, it will give Android the lead every time.

Simple as that.

lx_theo

[QUOTE="lx_theo"]

iOS is better... People with tech savy tend to lean towards Android because it doesn't have the greater limitations of the iOS's closed system. For people who'd be willing to walk into system wars and even vote on it let alone comment, it will give Android the lead every time.

Simple as that.

musicalmac

Jailbreak would be a valid argument if apple didnt constantly try to make it difficult on every release of iOS. It took several months for the 4S to jailbreak and then again with the next version it was a waiting game. So with jailbreak you will be stuck with older version so many times, really not the same thing.

Gambler_3

Jailbreak would be a valid argument if apple didnt constantly try to make it difficult on every release of iOS. It took several months for the 4S to jailbreak and then again with the next version it was a waiting game. So with jailbreak you will be stuck with older version so many times, really not the same thing.

Gambler_3

[QUOTE="Gambler_3"]

Jailbreak would be a valid argument if apple didnt constantly try to make it difficult on every release of iOS. It took several months for the 4S to jailbreak and then again with the next version it was a waiting game. So with jailbreak you will be stuck with older version so many times, really not the same thing.

musicalmac

First jailbreak of 4S took 3 months and 6 days. Then iOS 5.1 took 2 months to jailbreak.

And lol at your last comment, it's because apple makes it so much harder to jailbreak I dont think it has anything to do with lack of interest or there wont be a jailbreak at all as it requires serious dedication to jailbreak iphone and ipad.

But yes an average user cant be bothered with jailbreaking and rooting thats why it's important to note than an android phone doesnt need root for serious customization, it can do whatever you want right out of the box.

[QUOTE="Gambler_3"]

Jailbreak would be a valid argument if apple didnt constantly try to make it difficult on every release of iOS. It took several months for the 4S to jailbreak and then again with the next version it was a waiting game. So with jailbreak you will be stuck with older version so many times, really not the same thing.

SoraX64

You dont need root to customize an android phone....and it's only the US carrier phones that are harder to root not "most" android phones!!!

Gambler_3

And lol at your last comment, it's because apple makes it so much harder to jailbreak I dont think it has anything to do with lack of interest or there wont be a jailbreak at all as it requires serious dedication to jailbreak iphone and ipad.

Gambler_3

There both terrible for gaming.

Just got an S III instead of a 4S and am very satisfied. If I were to get a tablet though, I'd go with an iPad.

At the time of this post it was 110 to 37 in favor of an ad-revenue driven search engine over a personal electronics company...

These are crazy times we are living in, my friends...musicalmac

That is just an odd comment to make, since the vast majority of the things one uses an iPhone/iPad/computer-in-general for these days feeds right back into ad-revenue driven internet services. Facebook isn't providing service out of the goodness in Mark Zuckerberg's heart, and LinkedIn's app phoning home with all your contact and calendar information wasn't some innocent mistake.That ship sailed 15-odd years ago.

[QUOTE="Gambler_3"]

You dont need root to customize an android phone....and it's only the US carrier phones that are harder to root not "most" android phones!!!

SoraX64

Samsung the biggest android manufacturer right now is just as much pro tinkering as google. They dont lock their bootloaders and samsung releases their OS to the open source community. Name me a single non carrier samsung phone that cant be rooted easily.

[QUOTE="Gambler_3"]

And lol at your last comment, it's because apple makes it so much harder to jailbreak I dont think it has anything to do with lack of interest or there wont be a jailbreak at all as it requires serious dedication to jailbreak iphone and ipad.

musicalmac

iOS, I am convinced that people only like Android because they hate Apple.Sali217

Or because they've tried both... I don't actually own a smartphone myself, but literally every one of my friends do. And every single one of them owned an iPhone first. And after switching to a nexus or one of the samsungs, every one of them said, and I quote, "I have no idea how iPhones keep selling. this is so much better". Although, I hang out with people who are at least moderately tech-savvy, and enjoy doing cool things like rooting their devices.

I do actually have an MP3 player, which runs a stripped down version of android (basically an android version of an ipod touch), and I really like it, although it definitely doesn't have computing power of the ipod touch. For exactly that reason, one of my friends got an iPod touch, and rooted it, and runs android on it now.

Android is better.

But mobiles and tablets have nothing to do with gaming. It's irrelevant here.

[QUOTE="Gambler_3"]

You dont need root to customize an android phone....and it's only the US carrier phones that are harder to root not "most" android phones!!!

SoraX64

Looks like we're getting close to the 200 mark.

if ios and android are gaming system

then a calculator is.

if ios and android are gaming system

then a calculator is.

quebec946

Your calculator has Minecraft?